How to Set Up Stream Alerts In OBS

As a streamer, adding alerts to your Twitch, YouTube, or Mixer stream is usually one of the first things you do once you start taking things a bit more seriously.

Setting up Twitch alerts, while easy once you learn how, can be confusing at first since there are so many different ways to add new notifications to your stream.

In this guide I’ll go over your options for adding alerts to your stream using OBS Studio, and give you a quick “how to” for each.

Here’s What You’re Going to Learn

After you’ve gone through this guide, you’ll know how to add new follower notifications to your stream, as well as any other alert you want for new subscribers, donations, etc.

This tutorial will show you five different methods for setting up alerts, so that when you get a new follower, subscriber, or donation while you’re streaming it’ll pop up on your stream for your viewers to see.

Adding Your Alert URL to OBS

Each of the five alert options above give you a unique URL that you need to use in order for your alerts to work properly during your stream.

In order to set up your alerts with OBS we’ll need to add your alert specific URL to OBS Studio, using the Browser option.

Here’s How to Add Your Alert to OBS:

1.In OBS Studio, right click in the Sources box of the scene you want your alerts to show up in.

2.Mouseover, Add, then click Browser and name it something like, “Stream Alerts”.

3.Now paste the URL that you got from your alert app into the URL section.

4.Adjust the Width, Height, and FPS to your liking, and make sure to check, “Shutdown source when not visible”. Or you’ll still hear your alert notification sounds when you hide your alert browser source.

5.Click OK, and now you’ll have your alerts added to OBS. You can move and resize the browser source around to place it wherever you want the alerts to show up on your stream.

Which Alert Site Should You Use?

I’m going to be putting together a separate article that’ll go deeper into which stream alert app is best for certain streamers.

For the alert functionality, they all more or less do the same thing.

Some have more customizability which will appeal to some streamers, while others will appreciate something more simple that other apps offer.

I personally use Streamlabs, but after exploring some of the other options I did notice some nice features that other apps have that Streamlabs doesn’t.

Like most things in life, it all really comes down to preference. What I like in a streaming app, might not be what you like.

So for now, I’d suggest giving each alert system a shot, then choose which one you like the most.